The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-14

bloated, and with the signature Of sin
burned in from tho top of the forehead
to the bottom of the chin, will look hon
est men out OF countenance. Moral corpses
which ought to lie buried hundred feet deep
10 keep them from poisoning the air, will rot
In the face of t,.e sun at MONDAY. Industry
In her plain frock will be unappreciated,
while thousands of men will wander in idle
ness, with their hands on their hips, saying
"The world owes us a living" o, what a ire
mendous power there is in iniquity when un-
educated, and unrestrained, and unblanched
IT goes on concentrating. and deepening, and
Widefiing, dfid gathering momentum until it
swings ahead with very triumph OF desola-
ton, drowning like surges, scorching like
flames, crushing like rocks! What are you
going to do with this abandoned population
of the streets! Will you gather them in your
Churchesl Its not the will OF your Heavenly
Father shat one of these little ones
sh6uld perish. II you have ten respectable
children in your class gather in ten that are
not respectable. If in your Bible-class there
be twenty young men who have come from
Christian homes and elegant surroundings,
let those twenty young men go out and
gather in twenty more of the young men of
the city who are lost to God and lost TO So
ciety. This outside population, unless ed
Gated and restrained, will work ter
rur in ages that are to come
Years ago, at New Orleans, when the cholera
Was raging fsarfuily, steamboat put out just
before nightfall, crowded Nth passengers
who were trying to escape from the
pestilence. After the boat had been out a
| little while the engineer fell with the cholera.
| The captain, In consideration, went
down among the passengers aid asked;
"Is there any one here who knows
anything about engineering~ A Swarthy
man replied: II am an engineer" "Well, y
said the Captain, II would DO very
! glad if you would take charge Of this boat"
The man went to the engine. The steamer
moved more rapidly, until, after awhile, the
Captain and some passenger were alarmed,
and they went to see what was the mat
ter, and they found that this was a maniao
engineer, and that he was peepng
down the safety-valve; and, as they
came to him, he said: II am commissioned of
Satan to drive this steamer to hell" and he
nourished his pistol and would not come
down. But nfter awhile, through some
stratagem, he was brought from his position,
and the lives Of the passengers were saved.
| o, my friends! that steamer had no such
peril as our institutions ale threat;
ened with, if the ignorant and
unrestrained children Of this land shall
come up in their ignorance and their crime
to engineer our civil and religious institu-
tions, and drive them on the rocks. Educate
this Abandoned Population, or they will over
throw the institutions of this land. Gather
them into your Sabbath-schools. ! con-
gratulate you that many have been
| gathered. Go forth, teachers, in the
name Of the Lord Jesus Christ, and
on the coming Sabbath may there be
| found gathered scores and hundreds Of these
| wanderers, and instead of eighteen hundred
in the Sabbath-school we shall see three
Thousand or four thousand, and the grace OF
| God will come down upon them, and the Holy
Spirit will bring them all into the truth
Another characteristic of live church Is
one with appropriate architecture. In the
far West and amid destitute population, a
log church is very appropriate-the people
| living in log houses But i'll communities
where people live i'll comfortable abodes, a
| church unconmodious or lacking in beauty Is
moral nuisance. Because Christ was born IN
manger is no reason why we should worship
Him in barn. Let the churches Of jesus
Christ be not only comfortable, but ornate
| Years ago we resolved to have a comfortable
church We resolved that it should be auiphi
theatrical in shape. The prominent archi
tects of the country after figuring on tht
matter good while, said that such a church
would not be churchly, and they would have
nothing to do with the enterprise
But after awhile we found an architect will
ing to risk his reputation. He put up for u:
the first tabernacle, in amphitheatrical style
We liked it All who came liked it. Thi:
building followed in the same style We be
lieve it is appropriate and adapted An an
gular church will have an angular theology
The Church of Jesus Christ ought to be a grea
family circle, the pulpit only the fireplace
around which they are gathered in sweet ane
domestic communion But when our hrs
tabernacle went up, q the caricature and the
scofing They said: "It's hippodrome
It's a holy cirdus It's Talmage's theatre
But the Lord came down with power upor
that old building, and made it a gate o
heaven to great many. And this building
followed That we were right in persistlns
in the style of architecture is proves
by the fact that now there rre sixty o
seventy churches in the United State
in the same style Indeed, our tabernacle ha
revolutionized Church architecture in thi
country A live Church must have com
modious, comfortable, an adapted building
"How amiable are Thy Tabernacles, o Lor'
of Hosts would rather be a door-keeper il
the house of my God than to dwell i'll the tent
of wickedness"
Again, the characteristic of a live church
must be that it is soul-saving church.
must be the old Gospel of Christ. "Oh," sa
some people, the Gospel of Christ allows bu
small swing for a mans faculties and som
men have left the ministry with that idea.
One such said to Rowland Hill: ~ hav
left the ministry because l don't want
hide my talents any longer" "Well," TT
piled Rowland Hill, ~ think the more yo
hide your talents the better" Why, there
no field on earth so grand as that which
open before the Gospel ministry. Have yo
powers of analysis? Exhaust them here. Hav
you unconquerable logict Let it grapple wit
Pauls Epistle to the Romans Hay
you strong imaginationi Let it dis
course on the Psalms of David, c
Johns Apocalyptic Vision. Have you gres
power of pathos' Exhaust it in telling til
story of a Saviours love. ;, Ha9ge VA Dol
| Myle OF thinking! Then follow EZekleis S wheel
full of eyes, and hear through his chapters tn
rush of the wings of the seraphim. All y
who want grand field in which to work fc
God, come into the Gospel ministry. A
any rate, come into Christian circl e
and somewhere and somehow declare I'll
grace of God. Pardon for all sin. Comfol
for all trouble. Eternal life for all the deat
o, my soul! preach it for ever 1t has bee
my ambition, and believe it has been your
my dear people, i'll these years of m
ministry, to have this soulsaving Churcl
and we never yet threw out the Gospel nt
but we drew in a great multitude The
have come, hundred at time; and tw
hundred and fifty at a time; and l expe'
the day will appear, when, in some servic
there will be three thousand souls acceptin
the offers Of eternal life l wish
could tell you the circumstance
that have come under my Observable
proving the fact that God has blessed th
prayers of these people in behalf of souls in
mortal. | could tell you of one night, whe
stood at the end of the platform, and gel
tleman passed me, his cheek bronzed with IL
sea, and as he went into the inquiry -rool
he said to me: II am an Englishman
l said: 81 am very glad to see you; walk in
That night he gave his heart to the Lord.
was clear case of quick but thorough col
I version. Passing out at the close of the il
, quiry meeting, said: How long have yo
been in this countryr He said: 81 arrived b
steamer this morning at eleven O'Clock" l sal,
'How long will you be in the cityf' He sal,
. 81 leave tomorrow for Canada, and thence
go to Halifax, and thence to Europe, and l
/ never be here again" l said: 81 think yc
1 must have come TO this country to have yot
i soul saved" He said: THAT certainly WI
. the reason.n In that other room, one nigh
at the close of the service, there sat anon
other persons three persons, looking s
cheerful that | said to myself: "Thes
, are not anxious inquirers" said TO the mar
Are you a Christianf He said: II am.
| said: "When did you become Christianl
He said: Tonight" His wife sat next
him. I said to her: care you Christian
She said: al am" / said; "When did yo
. become a Christianf She - said: "f'
I night l remarked: "Is this youn
! lady your daughters" They said: es-
! ! said to her: Are you a Christian
| She said. ssNeS I said ssVhpn did Won b-